Her outstanding efforts have earned Douglass the first Renewable Energy Teacher Award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) Office of Education Programs.

Astris Energi Inc. today announced they had received a purchase order from Alternate Energy Corporation (''AEC'') (OTC BB: ARGY) for the first Model E8 Portable Power Generator covered by the value-added reseller (VAR) agreement they signed in May 2004.

This initiative in Colombia is the latest of more than 20 collaborative off-grid village electrification projects involving Xantrex and Total Energie in the last three years in Africa, the Caribbean and South America.